we are not the forgers of our own felicity. Quotes

“Happiness is essentially a gift”

“The forger was too exacting, too superficial. Only the real artist has the false beginning.”

“I've never kissed an art forger before" Lord Huntington to Eliza Somerton in "An Artful Seduction”

“If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.”

“It was in the attempt to ascertain the interrelationships between species that experiments n genetics were first made. The words "evolution" and "origin of species" are now so intimately associated with the name of Darwin that we are apt to forger that the idea of common descent had been prominent in the mnds of naturalists before he wrote, and that, for more than half a century, zealous investigators had been devoting themselves to the experimental study of that possibility. Prominent among this group of experimenters may be mentioned Koelreauter, John Hunter, Herbert Knight, Gartner, Jordan. Naudin, Godron, Lecoq, Wichura--men whose names are familiar to every reader of Animals and Plants unders Domestication.”

“Vermeer's skill was in combining few colors, mixing little and using layers of lakes and varnishes to build up the illusion of life”

“An artist must paint not simply surface light but what is inside, what he sees within his subject”

“An artist must paint not simply surface light, but what is inside, what he sees within his subject”

“We should all realize that we can only talk about the bad forgeries, the ones that have been detected; the good ones are still hanging on the walls”

“But memory is less disposed to compromise”